Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 5, 2009, 10:49 am
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson audiobook: 2 hours *** About the Book *** Every year the local church puts on the exact same Christmas pageant with the exact same costumes and th...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 4, 2009, 8:22 am
Here are the books I've added to the TBR list this week ... The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West - This book is about a 'shell shocked' soldier whose returns home during The Great W...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 4, 2009, 7:42 am
I never did announce the winner of SUNNYSIDE BLUES from back in October. Congratulations to Gwendolyn B. - your copy of the book is on the way to you. And congratulations to Janet Ruth of Along the ...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 3, 2009, 7:03 am
Greatest Discoveries: Explorations That Changed History TIME magazine article collection 121 pages *** About the Book *** This is a gorgeous, photo-filled book from TIME Magazine's Great Books ...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 2, 2009, 6:44 am
Last Christmas I didn't get to read the books I wanted to before Christmas. So this year I'm making a list. Books I want to read with Kiddo before Christmas ...The Cole Family Christmas (J...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Dec 1, 2009, 6:46 am
The Saint and the Fasting Girl by Anna Richenda 330 pages *** About the Book *** At the start of the story, Georgia is a nun in a small convent during the reign of Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon. ...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 30, 2009, 6:17 am
I was so excited to sign up for the Read Your Own Book Challenge back in January 2009. Here' s my original post for this challenge. The goal was to read 20 books that I already own, that were at ...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 27, 2009, 6:05 am
Ivy & BeanBook 6: Doomed to Dance by Annie Barrows 136 pages *** About the Book *** Ivy & Bean are two 2nd grade girls who don't have much in common but who have become best friends. In thi...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 26, 2009, 6:58 am
... last year I was met with the news that beloved book blogger Dewey had passed away. Here's what I posted that day.Fun: ... I asked my readers in this post and this poll.Fun: Another blogge...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 20, 2009, 8:00 am
Before I share with you my Finds for this Friday I want to let you know that At Home With Books is the bane of my book blogging existence. It seems that every time I read Alyce's posts I end up w...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 19, 2009, 6:52 am
The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer 272 pages *** About the Book *** The setting is the English countryside in the Victorian age, a time when the local manor house provided almost all the em...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 18, 2009, 6:58 am
The Woodstock Storybook by Linanne G. Sackett photos by Barry Z. Levine 154 pages *** About the Book *** This book is a photographic record of the 3-day Woodstock concert event in August 1969 accomp...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 17, 2009, 7:49 am
Mom & Son Book Club #12: The Sea of Monsters Book 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan 279 pages About the book: This is the 2nd book following the adventures of Percy Jackson, a mod...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 16, 2009, 9:30 am
Since I became a mom, I've always dreamed of sharing books with son, Kiddo. Like most parents, I read stories to him when he was small. He was a very wiggly child and would never stay on my lap,...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 16, 2009, 8:36 am
The winner of the contest for THE RAGE OF ACHILLES by Terrence Hawkins is ... # 4 - Sue from The Mickelson Family! Congratulations Sue. Please look for an email from me requesting your mailing addr...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 14, 2009, 10:47 am
Thank you to truebookaddict for giving me the Kreative Blogger Award. The rules say to share 7 of your favorite things, then pass the award on to 7 bloggers ... so here goes! My Favorite Things Kidd...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 13, 2009, 7:33 am
Just letting you know that there will be some random posts throughout this month. I'm doing my annual blog housekeeping and my goal is to get everything updated and organized. I'll be writin...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 12, 2009, 6:55 am
This post is an advertisement of sorts but one that was not solicited (at least not exactly - I'll explain later), nor am I being rewarded in any way for writing it. I just want to share with you...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 11, 2009, 6:58 am
... over at Historical Tapestry today in honor of Veterans Day (aka Remembrance Day). My post is about how my grandparents' lives influenced my love of WWII-era historical fiction. I do hope y...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 5, 2009, 6:36 am
I know, some of you are gasping in horror over the title of this post. Let me explain ... *** How I ended up reading it *** I'd been hearing great things about LAVINIA, by Ursula K. LeGuin, fro...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 4, 2009, 6:27 am
Happy Birthday To Me! My blog is a chronicle of what I read from one birthday to the next so today is also the start of a new year on my blog - woohoo! I started tracking my annual reads when I turn...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 3, 2009, 6:45 am
Before I get to my Lovely Links I have to share a video with you. This is from Kiddo's ice hockey game this past Saturday (Halloween day, 10/31) when he scored his very first in-game goal - wooho...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Nov 2, 2009, 8:30 am
October was a great month for me. Kiddo continues to recover from his surgery and he's back to playing ice hockey three times a week - YAY! I cohosted the Dueling Monsters Read-A-Long with Fizzy...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 31, 2009, 8:00 pm
... Eva, by Joan M. Wolf - found @ Maw Books - "Just a few short weeks after Milada’s eleventh birthday, Nazi’s storm every home in her town in Czechoslovakia and take everybody ... t...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 31, 2009, 10:10 am
Thank you to everyone who participated in this month of Dueling Monsters! I had lots of fun with it - and I think FizzyThoughts did too. Frankenstein vs. Dracula - who wins? When I read Dracula ear...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 30, 2009, 6:35 am
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan audio book: 32 hours I'm not really going to review this book ... more like, I'm making a note that I listened to it. This is the 11th book in Jordan's e...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 29, 2009, 7:16 am
I've completed the 1% Well Read Challenge for 2009! This year I decided to focus on older books on the list. Below are the books I read, followed by the year they were originally published and a...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 28, 2009, 9:35 am
Two Histories of England by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens 157 pages *** About the Book *** This book consists of two parts. Part one is a history of England written by Jane Austen at age 16 to be...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 27, 2009, 6:39 am
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise a Self-Reliant Child by Wendy Mogel 258 pages *** About the Book *** The parenting skills advocated in this book are based on Jewish t...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 1, 2009, 11:08 am
Frankenstein Participants Rebecca @ Rebecca Reads ~ Anna @ Anna's leesreis - Lezlie @ Books 'N Border Collies - Robin @ My Two Blessings - Michelle @ Fluttering Butterflies ~ Susan @ Plays Wi...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Oct 1, 2009, 8:00 am
Are you ready to take on a monster? Now is the time! Join Jill from Fizzy Thoughts and I as we host a month of Dueling Monsters! Here at Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books we'll be reading FRANKEN...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 30, 2009, 1:31 pm
I was trying to post my recap of the YA Panel at the Baltimore Book Festival first, since that actually happened first. However I'm unable to upload videos from the hospital where I am with Kiddo...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 30, 2009, 8:55 am
I hope you all enjoyed our read-a-long of Elizabeth Gaskell's CRANFORD. Thank you to all the participants! Below are links to each of your reviews - I do hope you'll visit and comment on eac...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 26, 2009, 9:45 am
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 148 pages *** About the Book *** The town of Cranford in the 1850s is inhabited solely by women. Well, there ARE some men, but they are the shopkeepers and the “lower...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 25, 2009, 4:00 pm
Welcome to all the visitors from the Baltimore Book Festival! This intro post will be up all week to help new visitors get acquainted with my blog. If you are looking for new posts this week, simply...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 25, 2009, 8:27 am
Welcome to another week of Friday Finds, where I confess to all the titles that have finagled their way onto my TBR list. I've been trying to be better about adding books, to be more choosy ... b...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 24, 2009, 7:17 am
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende audio book: 12.5 hours originally written in Spanish *** About the Book *** Ines Suarez was born in 1507 in Spain and became a conquistadora in the conquest of Chil...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 23, 2009, 4:16 pm
In case you missed my last post, Kiddo is getting a feeding tube on 9/29. Here's Kiddo to tell you about all this himself. And he wants to share his evil plan for our overnight stay at the hospi...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 23, 2009, 3:27 pm
My Ántonia by Willa Cather audio book: 8.5 hours *** About the Book *** From the book jacket: Of Ántonia, the passionate and majestic central character in Willa Cather’s greatest novel, the n...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 23, 2009, 8:08 am
This is the 4th post in a series about The Book Club Toolkit panel I'm moderating at the Baltimore Book Festival on 9/26 @ noon. You can read the first post here, the second here, and the third h...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 22, 2009, 6:19 pm
We interrupt this blog to bring you Kiddo news ... and I apologize in advance for the rambly-ness of it, but I can't seem to think straight at the moment. Back in May Kiddo underwent additional ...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 22, 2009, 6:59 am
Wow, BBAW '09 went by in a blur. It was an amazing week but incredibly busy as well. My Friend Amy and the BBAW planning team deserve a huge round of applause for the fabulous event they put tog...
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Heather J. posted an article on Age 30 - A Year of Books - Sep 21, 2009, 7:33 am
Emmanuel Kolini: Unlikely Archbishop of Rwanda by Mary Weeks Millard 228 pages *** About the Book *** From the press release: Any pastor will tell you that no church is immune to conflict, whether t...
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